impala
[ĩmˈpala]
The verdict
“impala” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #52,976 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #52,976
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Impala:(Aepycero smelampus) Antílope de 95 cm de altura hasta la cruz, con pelaje pardo oscuro en el dorso y blanquecino por el vientre. Los machos poseen los cuernos anillados en forma de lira de ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | impala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmˈpala] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “impala” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for impala is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmˈpala]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,976 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Impala:(Aepycero smelampus) Antílope de 95 cm de altura hasta la cruz, con pelaje pardo oscuro en el dorso y blanquecino por el vientre. Los machos poseen los cuernos anillados en forma de lira de ...".
impala has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is impala, spelled I-M-P-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Impala:(Aepycero smelampus) Antílope de 95 cm de altura hasta la cruz, con pelaje pardo oscuro en el dorso y blanquecino por el vientre. Los machos poseen los cuernos anillados en forma de lira de hasta 50 cm de longitud. Vive en pequeñas manadas en África Oriental, de la familia de los bóvidos. Se caracteriza por su extraordinaria agilidad.^([cita requerida])
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “impala”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-M-P-A-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩmˈpala] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.